Executive summary The purpose of this literature review is to inform the work of
Development Initiatives (DI) and its Ugandan partner Development Research and Training …

Effective use of donor aid is critical in achieving the sixth Millennium Development Goal–
reversing the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2015. The Paris Declaration of 2005 identified five key …

Background: Current methodological debates related to theory-based evaluations (TBE)
centre around questions how to improve the explanatory strength of these approaches and …

Amid rising criticism of aid effectiveness coupled with tight budgets in many donor countries
at a time of economic crisis, donor agencies are under pressure to deliver value for money …

This paper was written with the collaboration of Moses Kiggundu, Mark Schacter and Ann
Qualman, and has benefited from numerous comments of colleagues in and out of CIDA, in …

The article explores the dilemma facing evaluators of development aid (as indeed of most
other topics), namely, whether to give priority to accountability or lesson-learning as the …

This paper studies foreign assistance programs called Results-Based Aid (RBA) in which
one government disburses funds to another for achieving an outcome. At least four theories …

Current development assistance prioritizes results and evaluative schemes used to
generate them as the most effective way of delivering aid by presenting these results as …

Amid rising criticism of aid effectiveness coupled with tight budgets in many donor countries
at a time of economic crisis, donor agencies are under pressure to deliver value for money …

If private markets can produce the iPhone, why can't aid organizations create and implement
development initiatives that are equally innovative and sought after by people around the …